Sep 6, 2022

Why your organisation needs product principles Issue 65

• Experimentation, Product Discovery
  Never start with a hypothesis

  What would it take to change your mind? The default is the action you’re okay with falling into passively whereas the alternative action is something you need to be actively convinced to do.

• Team dynamics, Roadmapping, Strategy, Product Discovery
  Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile? There is a Bigger Thing Happening

  Have you been endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success? Think again.

• Team dynamics
  Agile frameworks aren’t the destination. They are the starting points.

  Following recipes is the beginning of your agile transformation. To reach true agility you must become a chef.

• Roadmapping, Strategy
  Measuring design debt

  Its important to distinguish badly designed experiences and processes from actual design debt.

• Strategy
  Why your organization needs product principles

  Slack design: Product principles are essential guidelines that help teams evaluate work across functions

• Experimentation
  Algorithmic Nudges Don’t Have to Be Unethical

  If you're going to use algorithmic nudges, create win-win scenarios, be transparent about what you're collecting.

• Rethinking Product Discovery with Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Mind

  Why Design Justice Matters

• Experimentation, Product Discovery, Launch
  Innovation Strategy: Where to Explore, When to Launch, and How to Hack

  Innovation strategy is about more than tackling whats in front of you. You have to know how to find, and manipulate, the advantages of hidden markets.

• Experimentation, Strategy
  Where Corporate Strategy Meets Innovation Strategy

  Control and Predictability in Corporate Strategy

• Growth
  The Racecar Growth Framework — Reforge

  Step 1: Understanding how your product will grow

• Strategy
  Usage-Based Pricing 2.0

  Consumption isn’t just a revenue model; it is the explicit understanding that if we aren’t focusing every function in the company around making our customers successful, we aren’t living up to our commitments or our ability.

• Experimentation
  4 Types of Business Transformation

  Business transformations can take many forms and often occur at the same time. To understand which approach youll need to take, ask yourself two questions: 1) Is your transformation driven by internal needs or external forces? 2) Does it need to happen quickly, or do you have more time to transform?

• Experimentation
  Risk, decisons, and scarcity

  This weekend I took a long walk with a fellow founder/CEO. We talked on the phone before, but never met in person. We found ourselves in the same city, so it felt like it was time to shake hands and catch up IRL. He runs a company that's an order or magnitude larger than 37signals, so his experiences, responsibilities, and perspectives...

• Experimentation
  The Fortress and the Ship: How to Manage Your Core Business While Seeking New Innovation

  Strengthen your fortress walls